Having pie for breakfast is not so unusual — at least, it wasn’t unusual on New England farms of long ago.

Recreating the old-time tradition brought dozens of people to the Maples Farm Park homestead in Bozrah on Saturday morning.

They bought and ate homemade pies, had coffee and watched a baker with more than 30 years of experience show them how to make pies.

Anne Mehr and Ray Baker were two of the visitors. Baker had the Danish, which he said was “delicious,” while Mehr came for apple pie.

“I watched my mother make pies ever since I was a little girl,” Mehr, a Groton resident, said. But Mehr said she didn’t inherit a pie-making gene. “I thought I would just be born with it, but I wasn’t. Mom was a master. She could do it in her sleep.”

Diane Lavallee, of Bozrah, organized the breakfast, which was a fundraiser for Maples Farm Park.

“We were looking for something that tied in with farming,” Lavallee said. “It’s an old New England tradition that farmers would have pie for breakfast. We also wanted to kind of shake it up for spring. It’s about looking forward to spring.”

Joyce Brewster, a baker at the Golden Lamb Buttery in Brooklyn, gave demonstrations of how to make pies, starting with a crust of Crisco, flour and salt.

“I can do about six an hour,” she said. Brewster made all the pies sold at Saturday’s event, which also featured prints for sale by local photographer John Kemp. Twenty percent of the total sales of the photos also went to the park.

“It’s been a very good turnout,” said Kellee Ratzer, of Colchester, who helped her cousin, Lavallee, by selling pies at the door. Some varieties sold out within the first hour.